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Pretty much all modern NICs are already using separate hardware to reduce the load on the main CPU. I.e. using a different CPU to do more CPU.
Without that you're looking at sacrificing a whole core or two just to handle 1Gbps, nevermind 10+.
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Pretty much all modern NICs are already using separate hardware to reduce the load on the main CPU. I.e. using a different CPU to do more CPU.
Without that you're looking at sacrificing a whole core or two just to handle 1Gbps, nevermind 10+.